scholarly journals Phase transitions in GLSMs and defects

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilka Brunner ◽  
Fabian Klos ◽  
Daniel Roggenkamp

Abstract In this paper, we construct defects (domain walls) that connect different phases of two-dimensional gauged linear sigma models (GLSMs), as well as defects that embed those phases into the GLSMs. Via their action on boundary conditions these defects give rise to functors between the D-brane categories, which respectively describe the transport of D-branes between different phases, and embed the D-brane categories of the phases into the category of D-branes of the GLSMs.

Author(s):  
Sergei L. Lukyanov ◽  
Alexander B. Zamolodchikov

This is a two-part course about the integrability of two-dimensional non-linear sigma models (2D NLSM). In the first part general aspects of classical integrability are discussed, based on the O(3) and O(4) sigma-models and the field theories related to them. The second part is devoted to the quantum 2D NLSM. Among the topics considered are: basic facts of conformal field theory, zero-curvature representations, integrals of motion, one-loop renormalizability of 2D NLSM, integrable structures in the so-called cigar and sausage models, and their RG flows. The text contains a large number of exercises of varying levels of difficulty.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamu Fukushima ◽  
Jun-ichi Sakamoto ◽  
Kentaroh Yoshida

Abstract Recently, a variety of deformed T1,1 manifolds, with which 2D non-linear sigma models (NLSMs) are classically integrable, have been presented by Arutyunov, Bassi and Lacroix (ABL) [46]. We refer to the NLSMs with the integrable deformed T1,1 as the ABL model for brevity. Motivated by this progress, we consider deriving the ABL model from a 4D Chern-Simons (CS) theory with a meromorphic one-form with four double poles and six simple zeros. We specify boundary conditions in the CS theory that give rise to the ABL model and derive the sigma-model background with target-space metric and anti-symmetric two-form. Finally, we present two simple examples 1) an anisotropic T1,1 model and 2) a G/H λ-model. The latter one can be seen as a one-parameter deformation of the Guadagnini-Martellini-Mintchev model.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (18n19) ◽  
pp. 1850113
Author(s):  
Hadi Parsian ◽  
Eric Sharpe ◽  
Hao Zou

In this paper we extend work on exotic two-dimensional (2,[Formula: see text]2) supersymmetric gauged linear sigma models (GLSMs) in which, for example, geometries arise via nonperturbative effects, to (0,[Formula: see text]2) theories, and in so doing find some novel (0,[Formula: see text]2) GLSM phenomena. For one example, we describe examples in which bundles are constructed physically as cohomologies of short complexes involving torsion sheaves, a novel effect not previously seen in (0,[Formula: see text]2) GLSMs. We also describe examples related by RG flow in which the physical realizations of the bundles are related by quasi-isomorphism, analogous to the physical realization of quasi-isomorphisms in D-branes and derived categories, but novel in (0,[Formula: see text]2) GLSMs. Finally, we also discuss (0,[Formula: see text]2) deformations in various duality frames of other examples.


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